Ariosto, Ludovico - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Ascoli, Albert Russell. Ariosto's Bitter Harmony: Crisis and Evasion in the Italian Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Book-length analysis of Orlando furioso that argues that Ariosto's poem both evokes and evades crises of self, the city-state and the church.
Blum, C. Sartini. “Pillars of Virtue, Yokes of Oppression: The Ambivalent Foundation of Philogynist Discourse in Ariosto's Orlando furioso.” Forum Italicum 28, no. 1 (spring 1994): 3-21.
Examines the portrayal of women and sexual politics in Ariosto's poem.
Brand, C. P. “The Arts of the Narrative.” Ludovico Ariosto, pp. 126-39. Edinburgh University Press, 1974.
Discusses the narrative structure and thematic unity of Orlando furioso.
———. “From the Second to the Third Edition of the Orlando furioso: the Marganorre Canto.” In Book...
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